Also, to me, physical and mental health, and safety, which is included in the safety and security section of Maslow’s hierarchy, is how we measure what our needs are in the first place.
While we don’t have to be in perfect health, or perfectly safe, it’s impossible to be anyway, we do have to be in fair health, and away from of immediate danger.
If you’re in poor health and/or immediate danger, than you’re in desperate need, definitionally.
So health and safety don’t come after food, clothing and shelter, health and safety are prior to them, and determine how much food, clothing and shelter we need, and what kind.
Having a moderate amount of all the other items listed, from the physiological like food, clothing and shelter, and physical abilities, to the sociological like family, friendship, community and a job, and socio-emotional abilities, like a sense of justice, or the ability to empathize, to the mental like having some common sense, street smarts, some arithmetic, reading and writing skills, is what keeps us safe and in fair physical and mental health (in)directly, or in other words, in a state of relative needlessness.
And you can have too much or too little of any of these items, or the wrong sort of these items.
Too much or too little, compromises your health and safety, or the health and safety of your friends, family and community, making you, or the people you care about and need, needy.
You can even have too much information, or the wrong kind of information.
Information may be accurate, but relatively useless to you, taking your attention from more useful things, or preventing you from giving your head a much needed rest.
Or information can be inaccurate, or highly speculative.